First we attacked the Russian soldiers with our gases, and then when we saw the poor fellows lying there, dying slowly, we tried to make breathing easier for them by using our own life-saving devices on them.

I went back to graduate school with the clear intention that what I wanted to do with my life was to improve societies, and the way to do that was to find out what made economies work the way they did or fail to work.

Douglass North

Man was born to be rich, or grow rich by use of his faculties, by the union of thought with nature. Property is an intellectual production. The game requires coolness, right reasoning, promptness, and patience in the players.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.

Plato

If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

A room without books is like a life without meaning.

Thomas Jefferson

Jem spoke with enormous care; talking to Will about anything personal was like trying not to startle away a wild animal.

Cassandra Clare

The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power.

Thomas B. Macaulay

What is peddled about nowadays as philosophy, especially that of N.S., but has nothing to do with the inner truth and greatness of that movement is nothing but fishing in that troubled sea of values and totalities.

Martin Heidegger

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

Dale Carnegie

All things come round to him who will but wait.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

When war is declared, truth is the first casualty.

Arthur Ponsonby

The punishment of criminals should be of use; when a man is hanged he is good for nothing

Voltaire